Well, this adds to my belief that Graduate study in Computer Science is a waste of money and time, especially in these times when you have a computer at home and can do your own research without the need of spending a large amount of money to buy a degree at a college or university. Do you really need an MS, or PhD in Computer Science when a 19 year old kid is able to revolutionize the net and scare the hell out of multi-billion dollars corporations?? Do you really need an MS or PhD in Comp Sci to get a job doing VB or C++ or Java?? And God forbid that you don't have those skills! Otherwise you will find yourself doing Usher jobs at your nearby movie theater:))))))
Much has been said about so-called copyrighted music, copyrighted software, etc. BUT do you really own the music or the software?? We all know that different musicians and singers play and sing in different styles and we had come to classify those styles, like pop music, jazz, rock, hard rock, heavy metal, etc. As soon as you listen to one of those styles, you immediately know what kind of music it is. If a particular style of music appeals to an immemse number of people and you, as a musician, want a piece of the action there, you will start by listening to the most popular group and try to immitate the style they use as close as possible. So now you begin the imitation, you will listen to their songs, you will pay attention and check the kinds of musical instrument they use; the way the music is composed, etc., etc. , etc. So are you original??? Of course NOT!! If all of your music content is based upon a long chain of ideas of other before you, do you really have a right to copyright something that really didn't originally come out of your brain?? These are issues that sooner or later the courts will have to decide. who really owns music? Do you have the right to copyright something which is NOT entirely yours??
Oh! C'mon!!! Are you gonna tell us you don't have a few MP3's on your hard disk???? Are you?? Are you going to tell us you don't have a few apps on your hard disk you didn't pay for??? Let's not be hypocrites here, ok? Leave it to the Republican prostitutes in the US Congress.
I fail to understand what is the fuss about Metallica identifying 300k users and delivering a bunch of boxes containing useless annonymous names to Napster. Who at Napster will have the will and the patience to sift through all those names, anyway? There's nothing chilling about that exercise in futulity. If you think you are on that Metallica list, just change your userid, period!! Well now that Metallica has shown what is capable of doing to its fan for a few miserable dollars, I hope that you now be aware of these so-called Rock Groups who clothe themselves in anti-establishment, rebel, progressive, anything-that-appeals-to-you garments because they are NOT. It is just a way to turn on and keep ringing the cash register 24/7. That's what they only care about.
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Well, this adds to my belief that Graduate study in Computer Science is a waste of money and time, especially in these times when you have a computer at home and can do your own research without the need of spending a large amount of money to buy a degree at a college or university. Do you really need an MS, or PhD in Computer Science when a 19 year old kid is able to revolutionize the net and scare the hell out of multi-billion dollars corporations?? Do you really need an MS or PhD in Comp Sci to get a job doing VB or C++ or Java?? And God forbid that you don't have those skills! Otherwise you will find yourself doing Usher jobs at your nearby movie theater :))))))
Gee!! You go there to feed yourself and don't want to share with others?? Where is your conscience??
Much has been said about so-called copyrighted music, copyrighted software, etc. BUT do you really own the music or the software?? We all know that different musicians and singers play and sing in different styles and we had come to classify those styles, like pop music, jazz, rock, hard rock, heavy metal, etc. As soon as you listen to one of those styles, you immediately know what kind of music it is. If a particular style of music appeals to an immemse number of people and you, as a musician, want a piece of the action there, you will start by listening to the most popular group and try to immitate the style they use as close as possible. So now you begin the imitation, you will listen to their songs, you will pay attention and check the kinds of musical instrument they use; the way the music is composed, etc., etc. , etc. So are you original??? Of course NOT!! If all of your music content is based upon a long chain of ideas of other before you, do you really have a right to copyright something that really didn't originally come out of your brain?? These are issues that sooner or later the courts will have to decide. who really owns music? Do you have the right to copyright something which is NOT entirely yours??
Oh! C'mon!!! Are you gonna tell us you don't have a few MP3's on your hard disk???? Are you?? Are you going to tell us you don't have a few apps on your hard disk you didn't pay for??? Let's not be hypocrites here, ok? Leave it to the Republican prostitutes in the US Congress.
I fail to understand what is the fuss about Metallica identifying 300k users and delivering a bunch of boxes containing useless annonymous names to Napster. Who at Napster will have the will and the patience to sift through all those names, anyway? There's nothing chilling about that exercise in futulity. If you think you are on that Metallica list, just change your userid, period!! Well now that Metallica has shown what is capable of doing to its fan for a few miserable dollars, I hope that you now be aware of these so-called Rock Groups who clothe themselves in anti-establishment, rebel, progressive, anything-that-appeals-to-you garments because they are NOT. It is just a way to turn on and keep ringing the cash register 24/7. That's what they only care about.